Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments, MLA Update

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This popular rhetoric/reader combines a brief, accessible introduction to argument with an anthology of provocative readings on contemporary issues. Addresses the writing of arguments stressing good reasons, rather than using technical jargon to teach argument writing. Writing and analyzing arguments, designing and presenting visual arguments

Preface

Introduction

Persuading with Good Reasons

What do we mean by argument?

What does "argument"

mean for college writers?

How can you argue responsibly?

How can you argue respectfully?

Reading And Discovering Arguments

Why Argue?

Why do people write arguments?

Why do some arguments succeed?

What are the goals of arguments?

What are rhetorical appeals?

Finding Good Reasons

The Obligation to Endure

Reading Arguments

Become a critical reader

Read actively

Recognize fallacies

Respond as a reader

Finding good reasons

Finding Arguments

Find arguments in everyday conversations

Find a topic that interests you

Find a claim by exploring

Find a claim by reading

Find good reasons

Find evidence to support good reasons

Finding good reasons

Drafting and Revising Arguments

State and evaluate your thesis

Think about your readers

Organize your argument

Write an engaging title and introduction

Write a strong conclusion

Evaluate your draft

Respond to the writing of others

Edit and proofread carefully

Finding good reasons

Analyzing Arguments

Analyzing Written Arguments

What is rhetorical analysis?

Build a rhetorical analysis

Analyze the rhetorical features

Analyze the rhetorical context

Write a rhetorical analysis

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

An Argument of Reason and Passion: Barbara Jordan's "Statement on the Articles of Impeachment"

Steps to writing a rhetorical analysis

Analyzing Visual Arguments

What is a visual argument?

Analyze visual persuasion

Analyze visual evidence

Build a visual analysis

Write a visual analysis

Got Roddick?

Steps to writing a visual analysis

Writing Arguments

Options for Arguments

Use different approaches to construct arguments

Be aware of your goals for argument

Finding good reasons: What do we mean by diversity?

Definition Arguments

Understand how definition arguments work

Recognize kinds of definitions

Build a definition argument

Finding good reasons

Setting the Record Straight

Speech Doesn't Have to Be Pretty to Be Protected

Steps to writing a definition argument

Causal Arguments

Understand how causal arguments work

Find causes

Build a causal argument

Finding good reasons

The Real Marriage Penalty

Why Should I Be Nice to You? Coffee Shops and the Politics of Good Service

Steps to writing a causal argument

Evaluation Arguments

Understand how evaluation arguments work

Recognize kinds of evaluations

Build an evaluation argument

Finding good reasons

Gangsta Rap and American Culture

Stop Loss or "Loss of Trust"

Steps to writing an evaluation argument

Narrative Arguments

Understand how narrative arguments work

Recognize kinds of narrative arguments

Build a narrative argument

Finding good reasons

The Border Patrol State

My Landlady's Yard

Steps to writing a narrative argument

Rebuttal Arguments

Understand how rebuttal arguments work

Recognize the tactics of rebuttal arguments

Build a rebuttal argument

Finding good reasons

Crossing the Line

Illegal Immigrants-They're Money

Steps to writing a rebuttal argument

Proposal Arguments

Understand how proposal arguments work

Recognize components of proposal arguments

Build a proposal argument

Finding good reasons

Coal in a Nice Shade of Green

Let's Make It a Real Melting Pot with Presidential Hopes for All

Steps to writing a proposal argument

Designing And Presenting Arguments

Designing Arguments

Start with your readers

Know when to use images and graphics

Compose and edit images

Create tables, charts, and graphs

Design pages for print

Design pages for the Web

Presenting Arguments

Plan a presentation

Design effective visuals

Give a memorable presentation

Researching Arguments

Planning Research

Analyze the research task

Find a subject

Ask a research question

Gather information about the subject

Draft a working thesis

Finding Sources

Search with keywords

Find books

Find journal articles

Find Web sources

Evaluating and Recording Sources

Evaluate print sources

Find information to cite print sources

Evaluate database sources

Find information to cite a database source

Evaluate Web sources

Find information to cite a Web source

Writing the Research Paper

Review your goals and thesis

Determine your contribution

Determine your main points

Avoid plagiarism

Quote sources without plagiarizing

Summarize and paraphrase sources without plagiarizing

Incorporate quotations

Incorporate visuals

Documenting Sources in MLA Style

Elements of MLA documentation

MLA in-text citations

MLA works-cited list: Books

MLA works-cited list: Periodicals

MLA works-cited list: Library database sources

MLA works-cited list: Other online sources

MLA works-cited list: Other sources

Brian Witkowski (student), Need a Cure for Tribe Fever? How about a Dip in the Lake?

Documenting Sources in APA Style

Elements of APA documentation

In-text citations in APA style

APA references list: Books

APA references list: Library database sources

APA references list: Periodicals

APA references list: Other online sources

APA references list: Other sources

Contemporary Arguments

Negotiating the Environment

American Environmentalism

Contemporary Arguments

The Conservation Ethic

Sidebar: Aldo Leopold, From The Land Ethic

The Way to Rainy Mountain

How Race Affected the Federal Government's Response to Katrina

Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front

Issue in Focus: Climate Change

What is Global Warming?

Ten Things to Do to Help Stop Global Warming

Christopher C Horner, Top Ten 'Global-Warming' Myths

Environment: Healthy Swamps

And Looking At Our Extended Forecast . . . (cartoon)

Burning at the Stake

Buying into the Green Movement

Fast Clothes vs. Green Clothes (editorial)

Environmentally Unfriendly Trend: Fast Fashion

Sidebar: How Green Is Your T-Shirt?

From Reading to Writing

Confronting Sexual Difference

Sexual Difference in American Culture

Contemporary Arguments

Appearances

Homophobic? Read Your Bible

Struggling Alone

Issue in Focus: Same Sex Marriage

We're Here to Defend . . . (cartoon)

House of Representatives, The Defense of Marriage Act

Evan's Two Moms

A New Tactic In Fighting Marriage Initiatives

From Reading to Writing

Subversion Through Perversion

Coming Out in the Line of Fire

Bad for Both Boys and Girls

The End of Gay Culture

Vanity, Thy Name is Metrosexual

Globalization: Importing and Exporting America

America's Place in the World

Contemporary Arguments

The Bad News Is . . . (cartoon)

No Human Being is Illegal

Beware of Illegal Aliens Seeking Hazmat Licenses

Sidebar, Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus

Sidebar, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Unguarded Gates

Immigration Maze

What's the Worst That Can Happen . . . ? (cartoon)

Under the Sign of Mickey Mouse & Co

Living The Dream

Wal-Mart vs. Pyramids

In Search of Intercultural Competence

Science and Ethics

The Ethics of Science and Technology

Contemporary Arguments

Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

A Tale of Two Dystopias

Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future

Beautiful, Functional and Frugal

A Robot in Every Home

Attitude Screen

Issue in Focus: Stem Cell Research

Speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention

The Ronald Reagan Eulogy Will Be Delivered . . . (cartoon)

Ron Reagan: Wrong on Stem Cells

Don't Clone Ron Reagan's Agenda

From Reading to Writing

Privacy

New Challenges to Personal Privacy

Contemporary Arguments

Three Cheers for the Surveillance Society!

Take my Privacy, Please!

It's Part of the Government's New Emphasis . . . (cartoon)

Traveler's Card Might Just Pave the Way for a National ID Card

Counselors Walk a Fine Line Weighing Rights of Student and College

The End of Youthful Indiscretions: Internet Makes Them Permanent Blots

Issue in Focus: Biometrics and Measuring the Body for Identity

Privacy Implications of Biometrics

A Trail of DNA and Data

Emerging Biometric Technologies

Sidebar: Voice Verification for Transations

Will Cash & Credit Cards Become Extinct in the Not-So-Distant Future?

From Reading to Writing

Regulating Substances/Regulating Bodies

Private Bodies, Public Controls

Contemporary Arguments

The Right Drug to Target: Cutting Marijuana Use

Eric Schlosser, Make Peace with Pot

Issue in Focus: Regulating Tobacco

Camel Lights Ad

American Legacy Foundation, Antismoking Ad

Doonesbury: The Sin Lobby Gins Up . . (cartoon)

The Necessity of Global Tobacco Regulations

Nazi Tactics

From Reading to Writing

What's This? (cartoon)

Drugstore Athlete

Citizenship and Disability

New Yorker

Cover

Please Save Us!

Those Extra Pounds-Are They Government's Business?

A Secret Society of the Starving

Consumer Freedom, Obesity Ads

Modified

The Subtext of All Tattoos (cartoon)

Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Like Father Like Son Ad

A Rare Kind of Rush: A Sorority Based on Islamic Principles

New Media

Personal Space in Cyberspace

Contemporary Arguments

Is Google's Data Grinder Dangerous?

A False Wikipedia "Biography"

Sidebar: John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace